The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed the names of universities that did not submit the Publish-UTME screening scores of under-age candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
JAMB expressed concern that, as of the agreed deadline of fifteenth September, 23 out of the 71 universities chosen by under-age candidates had not uploaded their Publish-UTME screening outcomes.
Since universities depend on a mixture of UTME, Publish-UTME, and SSCE outcomes to make ultimate admission choices, JAMB defined that the discharge of NECO’s SSCE outcomes a number of days after the September 15 deadline made it obligatory to increase the timeline for the under-age candidates’ evaluation.
The Board additionally introduced that the ultimate evaluation date for these candidates has been adjusted, although it didn’t disclose the brand new date.
“The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), in collaboration with the representatives of the chosen universities of the underage candidates who sat the 2025 UTME, has adjusted the ultimate date for his or her scheduled evaluation,” they stated
Listing of defaulting universities
The affected universities and the variety of candidates linked to them:
- University of Lagos, Lagos State – 39 candidates
- Nile College of Nigeria, Abuja – 18 candidates
- Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka – 15 candidates
- College of Abuja – 12 candidates
- College of Uyo – 9 candidates
- Federal College of Expertise, Owerri – 8 candidates
- David Umahi Federal College of Well being Sciences, Ebonyi – 6 candidates
- College of Calabar – 6 candidates
- Lagos State University – 5 candidates
- Bingham College, Nasarawa – 3 candidates
- Federal University, Lokoja – 2 candidates
- Lead Metropolis College, Ibadan – 2 candidates
- McPherson College, Ogun – 2 candidates
- Abia State College, Uturu – 1 candidate
- Bayelsa Medical College – 1 candidate
- Claretian College, Imo – 1 candidate
- Dennis Osadebay College, Delta – 1 candidate
- Federal College of Expertise, Ikot-Abasi – 1 candidate
- Michael Okpara College of Agriculture, Abia – 1 candidate
- Modibbo Adama College, Yola – 1 candidate
- Rhema College, Aba – 1 candidate
In complete, 135 candidates are affected by the delay.
JAMB urged the defaulting universities to submit their screening scores with out additional delay, noting that reminders had additionally been despatched through e mail.
Deadlines for admissions processing
The Board additional reminded establishments of the deadlines for importing their really useful candidates on the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS).
“Moreover, the Board needs to remind all public universities to submit their really useful candidates on CAPS on or earlier than Tuesday, thirtieth September 2025, whereas all non-public universities are to submit their suggestions on or earlier than Friday, thirty first October 2025.
That is to make sure that the deadlines of thirtieth October 2025, for public universities, and thirty first November 2025, for personal universities, are achieved.”
What it is best to know
JAMB set 16 years because the minimal age for admission into college, polytechnic, and faculty of schooling admissions, whereas permitting for documented, distinctive instances to be thought-about.
JAMB itself has lengthy operated with a 16-year threshold because the baseline, but it surely has additionally developed an exception framework for exceptionally gifted under-16 candidates.
The Board has argued that the age rule have to be balanced with tutorial readiness, and it arrange particular measures to handle how under-age candidates are dealt with in order that excellent performers should not mechanically excluded due to age alone.
Due to that exception framework, JAMB and stakeholders constructed a multi-stage screening course of particularly for under-age candidates. The method narrows candidates first by strict tutorial benchmarks after which by additional screening.
In 2025, JAMB stated it could contemplate solely candidates who meet very excessive cut-offs within the UTME and Publish-UTME and who present robust single-sitting SSCE outcomes; those that meet the educational thresholds are then submitted to a nationwide screening committee for interviews and different assessments to check readiness past uncooked scores.